Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan... and Beyond - Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-12967-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be read-that in which it was written and that in which we find ourselves today. Among the other additions to this new edition are a celebration of modern "screwball" comedies like My Best Friend's Wedding, and an analysis of '90s American and Canadian teen movies in the vein of American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, and Rollercoaster. Also included are a chapter on Hollywood today that looks at David Fincher and Jim Jarmusch (among others) and an illuminating essay on Day of the Dead.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue 20031. Cards on the Table2. The Chase: Flashback, 19653. Smart-Ass and Cutie-Pie: Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman (1975)4. The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s5. The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s6. Normality and Monsters: The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero7. Brian De Palma: The Politics of Castration8. Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era9. Horror in the 80s10. Images and Women11. From Buddies to Lovers12. Two Films by Martin Scorsese13. Two Films by Michael Cimino14. Day of the Dead: The Woman's Nightmare15. On and Around My Best Friend's Wedding16. Teens, Parties, and Rollercoasters: A Genre of the 90s17. Hollywood Today: Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible?BibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Wood is a founding editor of CineAction and author of Hitchcock's Films Revisited (Revised Edition, Columbia, 2002) and Sexual Politics and Narrative Film (Columbia, 1998). He is professor emeritus at York University and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.